Alot of  my more right wing leaning friends scoff when I mention something I may have read in the Listener. But this link to an extraordinary article, proves to me ( not that I especially needed the proof), that the Listener is a great source on all sorts on interesting, thought provoking issues.

This is a speech given by David Foster Wallace to a group of graduating students - and it is a superb dissertation on the old 'glass half empty / full' connundrum.

In other words - life is what we, personally choose to make of it - a thought I will ponder as I make the way up the Mount shortly...